Telmate has “reconsidered” its position on contractual “fresh...
Telmate has “reconsidered” its position on contractual “fresh look,” the prison calling company told acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn Friday, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/167TSY3). The FCC’s NPRM on prison calling asked whether the commission has the legal power…
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to order a “fresh look” window in which providers and facility customers would have the legal option to walk away from current contractual arrangements if the commission mandated new rates. In its original comments, Telmate called a fresh look approach “imperative” if the FCC “hopes to have any serious short-term impact on the [inmate calling service] ICS market.” Telmate has since had a change of heart. “Given the imbalance of sales and human resources between legacy incumbent ICS providers and smaller entrants like Telmate, a fresh look window would more likely result in all existing long-term (three to five year) contracts being renewed almost simultaneously, with little or no opportunity for competitive bidding,” the company said. Telmate recommended staggering the fresh look window among the thousands of ICS contracts nationwide “as the only practical way to harmonize the existence of long-term contracts and the unreasonable burden on smaller ICS providers in competing for correctional facility business at thousands of locations at the same time nationwide in the aftermath of any new interstate rate rules implemented by the Commission."